An approach to combine neutron and ion irradiation data to accelerate material qualification for nuclear reactors

S Taller, Y Chen, R Song, WY Chen… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2024 - Elsevier
Next-generation nuclear power plants are generally characterized by higher operating
temperatures, increased neutron fluences and energies, and distinct corrosive coolant …

Microstructure response and lead-bismuth eutectic corrosion behavior of 11Cr1Si ferritic/martensitic steel after Au-ion irradiation

Q Chen, F Bai, P Wang, J Yang, C Zhu, W Zhang… - Corrosion …, 2022 - Elsevier
The effect of Au-ion irradiation dose on microstructure evolution and lead-bismuth eutectic
(LBE) corrosion behavior of 11Cr1Si ferritic/martensitic (F/M) steels was investigated. The …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of Au-ions irradiation on microstructure and mechanical properties of FeCrAl coating

W Zhang, J Deng, H Yin, Y Zhao, X Qiu, M Zhou… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Elsevier
Six kinds of FeCrAl coatings with different Cr and Al contents were irradiated by 6 MeV Au-
ions with a damage level of 20 dpa. The results showed that the surface roughness and …

Analysis of position-dependent cavity parameters in irradiated metals to obtain insight on fundamental defect migration phenomena☆

YR Lin, A Bhattacharya, SJ Zinkle - Materials & Design, 2023 - Elsevier
Motion of point defects is a fundamental process that governs microstructure and properties
of materials. Here, we examine the near-surface and grain boundary cavity swelling depth …

A quantitative method to determine the region not influenced by injected interstitial and surface effects during void swelling in ion-irradiated metals

Y Li, A French, Z Hu, A Gabriel, LR Hawkins… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose and demonstrate a microstructurally-based experimental method to quantitively
determine the depth regions in self-ion-irradiated metals that are affected by the injected …

Bridging microscale to macroscale mechanical property measurements of FeCrAl alloys by crystal plasticity modeling

M Gong, D Xie, T Sun, X Zhang, L Shao… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
FeCrAl alloys are candidates for accident tolerant fuel cladding of light water reactors. In this
work, a microstructure-and temperature-dependent crystal plasticity model is employed to …

Depth distributions of cavities in advanced ferritic/martensitic and austenitic steels with high helium preimplantation and high damage level

S Jin, H Ma, E Lu, L Zhou, Q Zhang, P Fan, Q Yan… - Materials Today …, 2021 - Elsevier
The cavity depth distributions in advanced ferritic/martensitic and austenitic 316 steels were
characterized after irradiation with Ni ions at 580° C to peaked damage of~ 300 dpa and …

[HTML][HTML] Homogeneous void nucleation in the presence of supersaturated vacancies and interstitials

L Shao - Journal of Materiomics, 2024 - Elsevier
Homogeneous void nucleation in metals containing arbitrary vacancies and interstitials has
been reexamined, with corrections made to the original work by Katz and Wiedersich. The …

Void swelling of conventional and composition engineered HT9 alloys after high-dose self-ion irradiation

H Kim, JG Gigax, CJ Rietema, O El Atwani… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Ferritic/martensitic (F/M) steels are being considered as potential structural
materials for next generation nuclear reactors, and variants of the alloy HT9 are some of the …

Swelling resistance of advanced austenitic alloy A709 and its comparison with 316 stainless steel at high damage levels

H Kim, JG Gigax, J Fan, FA Garner, TL Sham… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2019 - Elsevier
Alloy A709 is an austenitic alloy developed for power boiler applications in thermal power
plants and is being considered as a candidate structural material for Generation IV reactors …